ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 742 / C&RL News P R E S E R V A T IO N N E W S Prepared by Barbara Brown College Libraries Committee Commission on Preservation Access • Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Shadek- Fackenthal Library o f Franklin & Marshall College (F& M ) arranged with the local fire department to conduct a series o f “full dress” fire drills in one o f the library buildings. The purpose o f these drills was threefold: 1) to give the fire department the oppor­ tunity to practice fire routines; 2) to familiarize each fire department shift with the physical layout o f the library and the location o f the priority salvage areas; and 3) to allow the preservation officer to test one o f the critical components o f the disaster prepared­ ness plan. The dates and times o f the drills were announced to the library staff, but no notice was given to the library users. Previous to contacting the fire department, the preservation officer, the college’s insurance representative, and a member o f the college’s facilities office had com pleted a physical assessment o f the library building. The assessment documented potential fire hazards, fire prevention systems, and overall environmental con ­ ditions o f the building. The final phase o f imple­ menting F& M ’s disaster preparedness plan is to practice materials salvage and to coordinate the disaster planning with other area libraries. The college has received a small LSCA Title II grant to conduct a hands-on disaster preparedness work­ shop which will include disaster team members from the five area libraries— Elizabethtown C ol­ lege, Millersville University, Lancaster Bible C ol­ lege, Lancaster Theological Seminary, and the Lancaster County Library. For more information contact: Charlotte Brown, archivist, Franklin & Marshall College, (717) 291-4160. • Wellesley, Massachusetts. Jane Hedberg, bibliographic services Librarian at Wellesley C ol­ lege, will assume responsibility for the Preservation News column in C&RL News in January 1992. She was selected by the College Libraries Committee o f the Commission on Preservation and Access to succeed Barbara Brown who has been editing the column for two years. H edberg may be reached via phone at (617) 235-0320 x2103; fax (617) 239-1139; or e-mail JHE DB ERG @LU CY.W ellesley.edu. • Los Angeles, California. The California State Library has awarded a grant o f $19,063 in federal Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) funds for a cooperative project called Per­ forming Arts in Los Angeles. The grant will support an assessment o f the conservation and microfilming needs o f selected manuscript collections, serials, and monographs in the performing arts held by six Los Angeles-area libraries: the Academy o f Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, California State Univer- sity-Los Angeles, the Huntington Library, Los An­ geles Public Library, Thousand Oaks Public Li­ brary, and the University o f Califomia-Los Angeles. The idea for this cooperative venture was devel­ oped jointly by the Los Angeles Preservation Net­ work Subcommittee on Preservation Microfilming and the Performing Arts Libraries Network o f Greater Los Angeles. U CLA is administering the grant. Brigitte Kueppers, head o f the Art, Architec­ ture and Urban Planning Library’s Special C ollec­ tions, and Christopher Coleman, the library preser­ vation officer, are the project coordinators. • Washington, D .C . Three recent reports are available from the Commission on Preservation and Access. Report on the Preservation Planning Project, prepared by the University o f Pennsylvania Libraries, is a final report on their work to develop a new management strategy for a library preserva­ tion program that would operate with a high level o f participation from contracted services. The Care and Handling o f Recorded Sound Materials by Gilles St-Laurent, National Library o f Canada, is an expanded version o f an article St-Laurent wrote for mailto:JHEDBERG@LUCY.Wellesley.edu December 1991 / 743 the National Library o f Canada’s National Library News. This article provides advice on the care and handling o f recorded sound materials in collections ‚ focusingprimarily on the nature and composition o f the recording media. The Commission’s Annual Report July 1,1990-June 30,1991 includes a special report called “The Agony o f Choice: Strategies for Preservation and Scholarship” by Henry W. Riecken, senior program advisor. All three reports are available free from Trish Cece, Communica­ tions Assistant, Commission on Preservation and Access, 1785 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. #313, Wash­ ington, D C 20036-2117; phone (202) 483-7474. • Washington, D.C. The College Libraries Committee met at the Commission on Preserva­ tion and Access office in October and agreed to move ahead in planning a second seminar on pres­ ervation management to be held in the northeast in summer 1992 with tuition held at the current rates. The first one-week preservation manage­ ment seminar, developed jointly by the commis­ sion and SOLINET (Atlanta, Georgia), was held July 2 0 -2 7 , 1991, at Washington & Lee University. Further information on application procedures and location may be obtained from SOLINET, (800) 999-8558. ■ ■ P U B L I C A T I O N S by George M. Eberhart • The Associations Yellow B ook (758 pages, vol. 1, no. 1, Summer 1991) covers more than 900 U.S. trade and professional associations with annual budgets in excess o f $ 1 million. The names and titles o f officers and management staff are provided, with direct-dial phone numbers when available. Boards o f directors, including their company affiliations, are also listed, as are selected publications, branch offices, upcoming meetings, the number o f mem­ bers and staff, and when the organization was founded. There are six indexes— associations, in­ dustries, individuals, political action committees, acronyms, and budget classification. The directoiy is scheduled for semiannual revisions. Subscription price is $150.00 per year from Monitor Pub., 104 Fifth A ve, New York, NY 10011. ISSN 1054-4070. • B uilding Sustainable Communities: An E nvironm ental G uide f o r Local G overnments is a new series o f 12 environmental resource hand­ books designed to guide local governments toward environmentally and economically sound policies and programs. The handbooks are published by the Center for the Study o f Law and Politics, a nonpartisan organization based in San Francisco. Each book consists o f a “menu o f projects” for policymakers to tackle, supplemented with sound advice and sample city and county ordinances where appropriate. The handbook on water conservation and reclamation, for example, features such projects as: adopt a waste water ordinance; offer a training program for landscape maintenance personnel; provide audits for industrial businesses; distribute water conservation devices door-to-door; change plumbing codes to permit use o f reclaimed water in high-rise buildings; and offer water conservation programs at schools. The 12 handbooks cover the following topics: solid waste, water conservation, toxics, transporta­ tion, energy efficiency, urban forestry, air quality, greenhouse gases, land use, open space, water quality, and environmental management. Lists o f relevant publications, service organizations, and local programs supplement each one. The full set costs $180 and individual handbooks are $20 apiece. For more information contact the Global Cities Project, 2962 Fillmore St., San Francisco, C A 94123. ISSN 1056-3865. • The C om puters, Freedom and Privacy Video L ibrary Series (15 videocassettes, 1991) consists o f the videotaped proceedings o f the Com ­ puters, Freedom and Privacy Conference held in San Francisco in 1991 and sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. The series covers many electronic issues involving the Bill o f Rights. O f special interest are: Law Enforcement and Civil Liberties (volume 8), covering the inter­ action o f computer crime, law enforcement, and civil liberties, in which civil libertarians, computer specialists, and attorneys rake federal and local prosecutors over the coals for their current and